# Ray Takeyh

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{{Short description|American Middle East scholar}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2011}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Ray Takeyh
| birth_date          = {{birth year and age|1966}}
| birth_place         = [Tehran](/source/Tehran), Iran
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| education           = [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) ([PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy))
}}
'''Ray Takeyh''' is an [Iranian-American](/source/Iranian-American) [Middle East](/source/Middle_East) scholar, former [United States Department of State](/source/United_States_Department_of_State) official, and a senior fellow at the [Council on Foreign Relations](/source/Council_on_Foreign_Relations).<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/28/world/middleeast/28iran.html U.S. Is Seeking a Range of Sanctions Against Iran]</ref>

==Early life==
Ray Takeyh was born to an [Assyrian](/source/Assyrian_people) family in [Tehran](/source/Tehran), Iran in 1966.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Zinda 16 October 2006|url=http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2006/10.16.06/index_mon.php|website=www.zindamagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-10}}</ref> His family has origins in the village of [Takeyh-Ardishai](/source/Takyeh%2C_West_Azerbaijan) in [Urmia](/source/Urmia).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Zinda 16 October 2006|url=http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2006/10.16.06/index_mon.php|website=www.zindamagazine.com|access-date=2020-05-10}}</ref> He obtained a doctorate in modern history from the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Editors |first=C. F. R. |title=Ray Takeyh {{!}} Council on Foreign Relations |url=https://www.cfr.org/expert/ray-takeyh |access-date=2025-11-05 |website=www.cfr.org |language=en}}</ref>

==Career==
Before joining the council, he was a fellow in international security studies at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University), a fellow at the [Washington Institute for Near East Policy](/source/Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy), a professor at the [National War College](/source/National_War_College), and a professor and director of studies at the Near East and South Asia Center at the [National Defense University](/source/National_Defense_University_(Washington%2C_D.C.)). He is married to [Suzanne Maloney](/source/Suzanne_Maloney), 
Brookings Institution Deputy Director of Foreign Policy, also an Iran analyst.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/clinton-foundation-donor-violated-iran-sanctions-tried-to-sell-747s-to-tehran|title = Clinton Foundation Donor Violated Iran Sanctions, Tried to Sell 747s to Tehran|newspaper = The Daily Beast|date = 10 July 2015|last1 = Shirazi|first1 = Michael Weiss}}</ref>

Takeyh has written extensively on Iran and U.S. policy toward the Middle East. He has testified several times before various committees of the [U.S. Senate](/source/United_States_Senate). He has appeared as an Iran expert on a variety of television programs, including the [PBS](/source/Public_Broadcasting_Service) ''[Newshour](/source/The_NewsHour_with_Jim_Lehrer)''.

Takeyh assisted [Dennis Ross](/source/Dennis_Ross) in 2009 in the latter's position as senior Iran advisor at the U.S. State Department.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.armscontrol.org/new_administration_members|title=New Members of the Obama Administration|date=May 7, 2009|publisher=Arms Control Association|accessdate=July 14, 2015}}</ref>

==Books==
* Ray Takeyh, ''The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty'' (Yale University Press, 2021). {{ISBN|978-0-30-025626-0}}
* Ray Takeyh, ''Guardians of the Revolution: Iran and the World in the Age of the Ayatollahs'' (Oxford University Press, 2009). {{ISBN|978-0-19-532784-7}}
* Ray Takeyh, ''[http://www.cfr.org/publication/11118/hidden_iran.html Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic]'' (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2006). {{ISBN|0-8050-7976-9}}
* Ray Takeyh, [Nikolas Gvosdev](/source/Nikolas_Gvosdev), ''[http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C7628.aspx The Receding Shadow of the Prophet: The Rise and Fall of Radical Political Islam]'' (Praeger Publishers, 2004). {{ISBN|0-275-97628-9}}
* Ray Takeyh, ''The Origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine: The United States, Britain, and Nasser's Egypt, 1953–1957'' (Macmillan Press, 2000)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cfr.org/bios/9599/ray_takeyh.html Ray Takeyh's Council on Foreign Relations web page]
* [https://www.senate.gov/~foreign/testimony/2006/TakeyhTestimony060919.pdf Senate testimony] – September 19, 2006.
* {{C-SPAN|92414}}
* [https://www.thedailybeast.com/clinton-foundation-donor-violated-iran-sanctions-tried-to-sell-747s-to-tehran]

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Category:Members of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America

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